The Kansas Music Hall of Fame voting to select new inductees and putting together the show. March 5 the following will be inducted: Count Basie, Central Standard Time, James Gadson, Rudy Love, Pat McJimsey, Charlie Parker, The Rainmakers, Riverrock, Bobby Watson, Jimmy Wilson and Chely Wright.

The rise...
of sun into the blushing skin of day
of birds to the gun
of blue pushing back the night of crisp stars
of warmed air plunging upward into the cool, lifting skeins and kettles
and the snowy tree cricket's so sweetly plaintive song in the dark stillness of frost's coming

Seeing another hurricane season go by with no major hurricanes hitting our coasts - like the armageddon the climate change liars promised would come to pass unless we started riding bikes and using fluorescent lamps.